Scientific director, working on in vitro gametogenesis

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Abigail Groff retweeted
We're hiring for a bunch of technical roles at @Conception This is arguably the most complex research problem in biotech, and the potential for impact is massive Apply on our website if you're up for the challenge and think you're a fit!
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IVF without injections, the ability for women to safely have children later in life and for cancer survivors to have children. Highly recommend reading @Conception's update if you want a glimpse into what the future of fertility looks like
I’m so excited to share this update on @Conception – We’ve generated the first early human eggs derived from stem cells. This is a big deal -- the potential to redefine fertility is real.
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Women are born with every egg they’ll ever have. The count falls from about a million to roughly 25,000 by 37, and the eggs that remain keep aging. No one can make a new one. That’s the timer on fertility, and why IVF gets harder with age. @Conception says it just built a way around it. From a blood draw, they grew human eggs inside a tiny ovary also made from stem cells. The eggs have begun meiosis, the special division that halves a cell's 46 chromosomes to 23. That halving is what makes an egg an egg. A world first, they say. It matters because the starting cell is skin or blood, so ovarian age stops setting the limit. The road here ran through mice. In 2016 Katsuhiko Hayashi's lab turned a mouse skin cell into an egg, then live pups. Humans stalled for years. Mitinori Saitou's team reached the egg's ancestor, but no one could build the follicle an egg ripens in or start meiosis in a dish. Conception says it cleared both. These eggs only began meiosis. They haven't completed it, nothing's been fertilized, nothing published, no safety data. If it holds, it reaches cancer survivors, women in early menopause, women who started late, two-dad families. Half the world, at every age. This could be truly revolutionary.
I’m so excited to share this update on @Conception – We’ve generated the first early human eggs derived from stem cells. This is a big deal -- the potential to redefine fertility is real.
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Very proud of this team and the work we're doing at Conception!
Conception’s mission is to turn stem cells into human eggs and redefine fertility. We have an exciting update - we've generated the first early human egg cells derived from stem cells.
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Abigail Groff retweeted
super excited to share that I'm starting as an Assistant Professor at @CUDenver this fall! my lab will be right in downtown Denver :) mattioli-lab.org i'm hiring! if you're interested in joining us to study how alternative isoforms contribute to cancer, please reach out
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Open source easy-start cloud compute infrastructure for bio. Looking for testers— if you’re a small start up or lab that could use compute infrastructure support, please reach out! bioaf.co
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Women lose >90% of their #eggs by their mid-30s, with persistent #DNADamage driving this loss. But why isn’t this damage repaired? Our new work in @CurrentBiology, led by @ninadini_sharma, reveals the causes of high DNA damage in aged oocytes.🧬💥 bit.ly/48e35Ee (1/13)
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Check out our blog post on developing deep learning models to predict fetal well-being during labor, using an open source dataset of time series signals consisting of fetal heart rate and uterine contractions and patient clinical data.
Cardiotocography (CTG) is a technique used to monitor fetal well-being. Today we describe how ML models can assess CTGs to predict measures of fetal well-being to potentially assist healthcare providers, reducing burden & improving fetal outcomes. goo.gle/3BpfJnJ

ALT We build a model development and evaluation pipeline to enable fetal well-being prediction that takes into account limited data, clinical metadata, and intermittent methods used in low-resource settings.

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Fantastic work from the @AppelGroup including Schmidt Science Fellow @AndreadAquino7 Incredible innovation on such a critical issue
Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a sprayable gel that creates a shield to protect buildings from wildfire damage. It lasts longer and is more effective than existing commercial options. @appelgroup engineering.stanford.edu/mag…
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Abigail Groff retweeted
Want to hear about the latest updates/new techniques in single cell and spatial genomics? Check out my lab's eighth annual Single Cell Genomics Day on March 29. Keynotes from @IdoAmitLab @JD_Buenrostro and Xiaowei Zhuang. Please RT/spread the word! satijalab.org/scgd
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Abigail Groff retweeted
New 2-year postdoc position available in my lab @TheCrick to test novel therapies for #IBD and related diseases by targeting a master regulator of #macrophage-driven inflammation using antibody-drug conjugates and related tools. Apply here: crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/… Pls retweet!
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Abigail Groff retweeted
On Tuesday November 8th - Vote! ⁦@docs4fertility⁩ #RoeRoeRoeYourVote #reproductiverights
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Abigail Groff retweeted
We're building a growing list of all the amazing labs working on female reproductive health. BUT we know there are some hidden gems. Can you help us find them? 💎👩‍🔬 bit.ly/3RJ1o8g
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The wordcloud of names of the authors of the published articles in top-5 journals between 2005 and 2020.
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We are excited to share our new work on improving human blastoid models and using them to understand human peri-implantation development. ( @leqianyu, Toshihiko, @Yyyyyy1005,@jlduan @deidre_logsdon @CcrmResearch @taotankm, @hon_lab, @yyreprod, @leo_jwu) (1/12)
Large scale production of human blastoids amenable to modeling blastocyst development and maternal-fetal crosstalk biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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Yesterday, I got an email from @DukeU with the eye-catching subject line: "Are you making an expensive mistake?". I opened the email, and it got worse.
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Full circle moment this week celebrating the launch of the 5th year of the @SchmidtFellows program at the @museumofscience in Boston where my parents took me as a child to encourage my then-budding interest in science. I guess it worked, mom and dad!
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In case you think abortion laws don’t matter: last week a pharmacist declined to fill a prescription for a patient of mine with an ectopic pregnancy citing SB8 restrictions. The same medicine that saved my life in 2013 when I had my own ectopic pregnancy 1/4
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